CH 2

Editor: Scarlet

Having not slept all night, Song Yunshen was physically and mentally exhausted. He could hardly summon up the energy to work seriously. Even quaffing huge cups of coffee didn’t help. Instead, he kept having to pee, and even his urine smelled like coffee. 

As an adult, breakups shouldn’t be a big deal. He can always find someone else. He comforted himself like this over and over again, but his heart still remained hollow and painful. The loss of love really hit him hard. All of his mental energy seemed to have been drained from him overnight, and what was left of him sitting here was only a tired, empty shell that was mechanically handling the tasks at hand.

But when he was halfway through a report, he drowsily fell asleep without realizing it.

At nine o’clock in the morning, Manager Wei took the newly appointed Young Master Lin to inspect the Marketing Department. All the employees were in high spirits. Several beautiful female employees took out small mirrors to touch up their makeup. Since Song Yunshen’s seat was close to the corner and the colleague who sat next to him happened to be on leave that day, no one noticed that he was still dozing off.

Manager Wei took Young Master Lin to look from compartment to compartment. All of the employees had a serious appearance and were neat and tidy. Manager Wei secretly nodded and was about to see him off when Young Master Lin suddenly stopped at a certain location. Manager Wei followed his gaze, and his face turned green. 

Song Yunshen had his head down on his desk, sleeping soundly on the keyboard, and even snoring slightly.

“…”

When Manager Wei saw this, he lost it and tried to go over and pull him up, but he was stopped by Young Master Lin. He looked up at him in confusion. Young Master Lin still had no expression on his face, but his eyes seemed to be glued to Song Yunshen’s face, thinking about who knew what.

He stood in that spot for two full minutes.

Some people looked over this way sneakily. Manager Wei glared at them, and they immediately held their breath. At the same time, they lit a candle in their hearts for Song Yunshen.

Just when Manager Wei was about to be unable to hold his tongue, Young Master Lin suddenly waved his hand to signal him to follow before turning and leaving. He hadn’t uttered a single word from beginning to end. Unable to figure out what this meant, Manager Wei was overwrought with anxiety, but the other party suddenly spoke at this moment.

“Just act as if you didn’t see anything, and don’t scold him.”

Manager Wei hurriedly agreed. 

Young Master Lin cast another glance in Song Yunshen’s direction through the glass.

“What’s his name?”

“Song Yunshen.”

Young Master Lin nodded and left without saying anything. He hadn’t let out a peep throughout the entire one-hour work introduction and tour, except for the few words he had said just now, all of which were related to Song Yunshen. Manager Wei scratched his chin and pondered for a long time, then let out a soft hiss. 

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Song Yunshen’s drowsiness faded away in an instant.

Being heartbroken was not a low point in life, but wasn’t unemployment one? 

He hurriedly grabbed his female colleague and asked, “How come the manager didn’t call me at that time?”

“Ol’ Wei originally wanted to call you, but Young Master Lin didn’t let him. We all thought he wanted to make a big move to make an example of you, but who knew that he’d leave without saying anything.”

Song Yunshen frowned in confusion.

He waited all morning in fear and trepidation but wasn’t called to the office. He couldn’t sit still and took the initiative to find Manager Wei before he finished his work at noon. 

Manager Wei was making a phone call. When the manager saw him, he just gave him a meaningful look. Song Yunshen waited on the side until he finished the call.

According to Ol’ Wei’s temperament, that glance meant that he was about to get an earful. Song Yunshen had already mentally prepared himself. He lowered his head slightly, bracing himself for a scolding, but instead, he was unexpectedly patted on the shoulder. When he looked up, Ol’ Wei was smiling at him.

“Why are you standing? Sit down.”

Song Yunshen had no idea what was going on. He replied cautiously, “No, I’d better stand. In fact, I came here mainly to…” 

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

Manager Wei pushed him onto the sofa and said with a smile, “I understand. The recent work is indeed more straining, so it is also pardonable to fall asleep. But today was really not a good time. Next time, pay attention a little. I see you have heavy dark circles under your eyes. Did you not sleep well last night?”

Song Yunshen hurriedly smiled and said, “I had a little trouble sleeping.”

Manager Wei asked with concern, “Why did you have trouble sleeping?” 

“…something happened at home.”

Manager Wei said softly, “Oh, so that was the case.”

Someone knocked three times on the door. Song Yunshen and Manager Wei turned their heads in unison, and a young man walked in holding a stack of documents. After seeing the other party’s face clearly, Song Yunshen froze and almost swore on the spot.

Why is he here?! 

At this moment, Manager Wei stood up and said, “Young Master Lin, what brings you here?” which revealed the other party’s identity in that single sentence.

Fuck.

Song Yunshen only felt that reality had played a big joke on him.

“I have a few questions to ask.” The voice was cold and indifferent, but magnetic and pleasant to hear. Song Yunshen had only heard it the day before. The man’s face was still wounded, and a band-aid was plastered on the corner of his mouth. It was impossible to mistake him for someone else. 

Song Yunshen shot off from the sofa almost immediately, and all his emotions, which he had suppressed all night, burst forth out of control.

“Fuck! You fucking knew this earlier, didn’t you? You fucking investigated me behind my back, didn’t you? Fuck you, man! Are you still fucking human? You still want to make things harder for me even though you’ve already fucked my boyfriend?”

Manager Wei’s face was pale with fright, and his reprimand was on the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed it hard. He observed the facial expressions of the people next to him and didn’t dare to open his mouth rashly.

Facing the index finger that had reached the tip of his nose, Lin Wanghe’s eyebrows wrinkled. His expression was still calm, and he said indifferently, “I haven’t investigated you; this is just a coincidence.” 

“Coincidence?” Song Yunshen wanted to laugh. “That kind of thing just happened yesterday, and you parachuted into the company today, and you’re telling me it’s a coincidence? Do you take me for a fool? Huh? Let me tell you, just because I got cheated doesn’t mean that I am an idiot! Even the fucking soap operas don’t dare to be this outrageous, you get me this plot rewritten immediately! Are you going to bully me every day next? You want to show off your power in front of me, don’t you? Fuck, I don’t want to take this shit from you! You don’t have to force me; I’ll leave on my own! Whoever wants to stay in this shitty company is welcome to do so, but I’m not going to work here anymore!”

After saying that, Song Yunshen strode out and slammed the door heavily.

Manager Wei stood there awkwardly. The amount of information in the conversation just now was so large that he only hated himself for not being deaf.

Lin Wanghe stared at the door, deeply lost in thought for a while, then said, “Find out his contact information and give it to me.” 

This sentence was equal to Manager Wei having been granted amnesty. He took out his mobile phone and flipped through the address book without saying a word. Lin Wanghe waited patiently for him to find Song Yunshen’s WeChat QR code, then scanned it with his mobile phone and sent a friend request.

“Phone number.”

Manager Wei sent Song Yunshen’s phone number to Lin Wanghe’s phone.

After packing up, Song Yunshen walked out of the building with the cardboard box in his arms. At the door, Lin Wanghe stood motionlessly by the pillar. It seemed that he had been waiting for him for a long time. 

Song Yunshen walked forward without looking at him.

“Wait.”

Lin Wanghe stood behind him.

“As I said, I didn’t know that he had a boyfriend or that you worked here.” 

Song Yunshen sneered and didn’t even want to respond.

Lin Wanghe stared at the back of his head.

“I’m sorry for hurting you unintentionally. But since he already got this idea, even if it wasn’t with me, he’d have cheated with others, wouldn’t he have?”

Song Yunshen paused. 

This young master sure was something. He acted all polite and apologetic but actually specialized in stabbing where it hurt—and he stabbed hard and accurately. Every word he said was a fact—a fact that, no matter how unwilling he was, he was incapable of refuting.

All night last night, he had sat and pondered over Li Siyuan’s behavior in recent months, and finally admitted with red eyes that Li Siyuan just didn’t love him anymore and was even somewhat fed up with him.

The behavior that had left him the deepest impression was when they had eaten hot pot together last month. It was supposed to be his birthday celebration, but Li Siyuan had been staring at his mobile phone while smiling the entire time. When he had asked, Li Siyuan had said perfunctorily that he was checking Weibo. He trusted him unconditionally, so naturally he hadn’t suspected him. Later that night, Li Siyuan had put his phone on the table to cook meat. Suddenly, the screen had lit up, which had attracted Song Yunshen’s attention. Before he could see anything, Li Siyuan had picked up the phone and turned the screen off.

With him acting so suspiciously, Song Yunshen, how did you not feel anything fishy about it at all? 

Maybe he really was stupid, to be toyed with by others like a fool.

Embarrassed and angry, he pressed his fingertips hard into the cardboard box, but he restrained himself from showing any bitter expression on his face and said without showing any weakness, “That’s between me and him, so don’t bother. It must have been hard for you to throw your weight around for a long time before getting transferred here. You must have been very disappointed that you didn’t achieve the desired result, right?”

Lin Wanghe was also a little annoyed by being insulted again and again. He lowered his voice and said word by word: “Song Yunshen, let me say it again: I didn’t know these things.”

Song Yunshen turned back and smiled mockingly. 

“Well, let’s say that you didn’t know. Then, what are you doing now? Apologizing to me? Or are you trying to retain me? Sorry, the moment I saw your face, I remembered what had happened yesterday and felt disgusted. Is this explanation still satisfactory?”

If the worst came to the worst, he would have to say goodbye to working in this field. As a person, one must have a backbone. He had lost enough in the past twenty-nine years. Now he didn’t have a thing to his name. On the contrary, he wanted to straighten his back and walk forward. He didn’t have much to lose because he didn’t have much to begin with. He didn’t believe that he, a grown man, would starve to death.

Lin Wanghe frowned in distress and asked after a long pause, “So you want me to have plastic surgery?”

“…” 

Maybe when people’s emotions reached an extreme level, they would lose their emotions. Song Yunshen was like this at this time. He didn’t know what expression to put on his face, so he could only smile in the end.

“Damn it, after arguing for so long, I discovered that you’re crazy! What a fucking waste of time!” He shook his head in disbelief and then walked away without so much as a backward glance.